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Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … owners. The exogenous component of technology ownership is isolated by using information on the regional presence of … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …
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To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...
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We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …
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context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …
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countries in conjunction with other tentative evidence suggests that this may in part be because skill biased technology affects …
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Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in …
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This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …
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In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …
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It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …
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